Kozmic Colours ChG For Audrey close dupe

 Above; Ring nail is China glaze For Audrey -3 coats

This pretty teal from Kozmic Colours is a close dupe for China Glaze For Audrey; the Kozmic Colours polish has more yellow in it but it's pretty close. There is many dupes of For Audrey and they are all beautiful. I used 2 coats of the Kozmic Colours polish ~ I needed 3 for the ChG.

I popped in a Sally Beauty Supply store recently and noted that China Glaze and most of their polish's were buy 2 get 1 free this month (China Glaze rang in at $7.99 when I was there - ouch!!!) I found these Kozmic Colour Polish's at the DollaRama in Canada.... they have some seriously beautiful colours and the formula has been on par with pretty much everyting else I have tried in the last few years.

 L- Ghina Glaze                    @ 2 coats each                       R Kozmic Colours

 crappy indoors shot ~ ChG on my ring nail

 ...... and some nail art. This is easy to do with stripe polish I used 2 different coloured creme striping polish's, a glitter stripe, and finally a blob of Wet n Wild  glitter ( name? )

stuff I used

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Cute Klean Kolor mini's

 
Klean Color Techno High mini set has 6 gorgeous metallic polishes that are easy 1 coaters. The yellow polish is the only one that I don't think I could wear....  it's too much on the yellow side......The tiny little brush and bottle cap made application tricky for me. Aren't these just the cutest little bottles?

I found this set for 5 bucks @ Winners ( T.J.Maxx ), I would definitely recommend having the Techno High Metallic set, but I was disappointed with the holo set, all the iridescent polishes are the same, just in slightly different coloured jelly base's. Chunky black is where it's at - that is a beautiful polish! The box set says " Chunky holographic' but there is only 1 truely chunky holo in there...............

I tried to layer one of the Klean Color Chunky Holo's over this lovely metallic teal but it barely showed up.

.... and the dark purple

I needed to add nail polish thinner to this polish..... 

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Wet n Wild Tahatian Pearl

 wow - what a beautiful colour and finish. This polish might be old news by now but my goodness, is it gorgeous. It is a shimmery dark teal with an excelent formula. This is 3 thin coats with a coat of top coat. I LOVE this colour!

without TC this dries to a satin finish

 

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Pure Ice Over You

 Over you from Pure Ice is a dense glitter with 2 sizes of lilac glitter, 2 sizes of teal hex glitter and teal bar glitter.....Today's mani is 2 coats of Over You layered over Lacey Lilac and a coat of TC. I kinda wish there was less lilac glitter in this; it hides the beautiful teal glitter ( less glitter? wtf is wrong with me )

Pure Ice Over You applied perfectly, it's a very dense glitter that dried fast. I am excited to pick up a few of the other glitters from their collection that recently showed up in Canadian walmarts!

I spilled white nail polish all over my hands and parts of my desk, so those aren't dry cuticle you are looking at. Yesterdays mani left major stains on my fingers and cuticles as well - so tonight I am going to take extra care, slather on some serious moisturizer with cuticle oil and possibly some barrier creme for My poor hands.

this is from Pure Ice Saddle me up

 although - it could be from the no-name walmart nail polish remover I am using right now - they did not have the Sally Hansen nail polish remover for artificial nails that I usually buy when I went to the big city..... so I had to buy the walmart brand of remover.......

Here is a few more photos of this beauty -

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I don't forget about my Frankens

The base of this dotty manicure is a lovely mint franken, and the dots are also frankens.... I used a dotting tool to make the dots. The polish I used are Frankens i made over 2 years ago........Here is the original post

 the Franken dots......

from a previous post  ( 2 1/4 years ago!!! )

and some Saran Wrap nail art......

So the last sponge mani I did left some major bubbles! Over on ChromaCraze  I read about using saran wrap bunched up to apply/remove polish and it worked out perfect. It creates a different look then sponging does, with none of the bubbles and much less texture.

I used 2 of the same frankens from my dotty manicure above. I started with 2 coats of the lighter colour, then dipped some scruunched up saran wrap into a few drops of the darker franken. I was surprised that the blurple shimmer showed up on my nails .....

I also tried brushing on a layer of the darker polish, then using the saran wrap to remove it. This also worked out well.

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Zig-a-Zig-ahhhhhhh

Quickie Post; Here is a fun somewhat Easter-ish mani. I started with a base of China Glaze For Audrey, then I affixed zig zag stickers that I cut out of mailing labels using pinking shears, then added 2 coats of ChG Shower together.... When it was dry I peeled off the zig-zag stickers and added a coat of Top Coat. Some of the 'points' were wonky so I had to add 2 coats of Wet n Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire.

The holo-graphic micro glitter in Wet n Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire shows up much better in crummy lighting.

 stuff I used ChG For Audrey, ChG Shower Together & Wet n Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire

I originally intended to leave it as is....but added Wet n Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire

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Essence Choose Me & ChG For Audrey sponge mani

I had different plans for today's manicure..... I tried to do one of those circle mani's, using a pen dipped in polish but I goofed it so bad I went to my dependable stand-by nail art =  a sponge manicure. This is 2 coats of China Glaze Foe Audrey, then a sponging of Essence Choose Me, then a sponging of Pure Ice Strapless ( sapphire blue glitter ) and a coat of TC.

my dollar store foam paint brush sponge.....& Essence Choose Me = I LOVE THE TEXTURE HERE

2 coats China Glaze For Audrey

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I can' stop doing this to my nails......

 Icing Monet, Icing Blue Goose and an un-named teal glitter sponged mani

 
 I started with 2 coats of Icing Monet, then sponged on Icing Blue goose, brushing polis over the tips of my nails for opacity,n then added 1 coat of an un-named Icing teal glitter and a coat of Top coat. Using Icing Monet as a base made Blue Goose look teal and no-where near blue.

I have at least a dozen other nail designs and nail art I wanna try out, but I keep coming back to these pretty sponge manis..............

 from a previous mani; Icing Monet

 From a previous mani; Icing Blue Goose

 Icing Monet, Icing Blue Goose, Icing Teal Glitter

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